Monday, July 28, 2014

I was honored to be asked share my work as part of The Skull Show at the Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for The Arts in Walnut Creek, California. The show is up through August 31, so definitely check it out if you're int he area, but for those of you who can't here's a look at my own work on display, including pieces and images from my original Skull-A-Day project as well as some of my 100 Painted Skulls and several Skeletubes...

Don't forget you have until 11:59pm Eastern USA Time, TODAY, Friday, July 18th, 2014, to enter the the current giveaway. Paul Johns is giving away a "Skull with Concentric Circles" Print to one lucky Skull-A-Day fan. You can find the original contest post by clicking the side bar ad, or this link.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Don't forget you have until 11:59pm Eastern USA Time, Friday, July 18th, 2014, to enter the the current giveaway. Paul Johns is giving away a "Skull with Concentric Circles" Print to one lucky Skull-A-Day fan. You can find the original contest post by clicking the side bar ad, or this link.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Tanya Green of Fredericksburg, Virginia shared this lovely image from her yearlong daily project The Gnome's Studio...Home of The Nightly Owl. She explains, "I am currently on my own 365 journey of nightly owls. Thanks to Noah, and finally making a commitment to creativity, I have been using the prompts from his book 365 A Daily Creativity Journal every night since October 2, 2013 to create...well...something owl-esque. Last night was Day 244: Get Framed. Instead of going literal, I decided to create the framework of an owl...the skull. The image attached was created with oil pastels on black paper."

Monday, July 14, 2014

Paul Johns is a graphic designer and artist based in Los Angeles California. He's created a piece called "Skull with Concentric Circles", which is currently on display at the Bedford Gallery for "The Skull Show". Paul would like to give away a screen print of this piece to one lucky Skull-A-Day fan!

PRIZE INFO: One copy of Paul John's screen print, "Skull with Concentric Circles". This is a three color screen printed poster drawn, signed and numbered by me and hand-printed on French 100# Pure White Cover by the awesome guys at Family Industries in Los Angeles. Each measures 11 x 17 inches, and has an edition of 50. This will never be reprinted.HOW TO ENTER: To enter this contest, comment below with an answer to this question. Let's keep it simple this week. Since Paul's artwork features circles, what is your favorite shape? Not that you need an example, but I'm fond of circles and triangles.CONTACT INFO: The winner, chosen at random, will be contacted via email by one of the Skull-A-Day editors within 7 days of the end of the contest. If that winner doesn't respond, another winner will be chosen. With your comment, please INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!!! Entries are only valid with this information.WHERE TO ENTER: All entries must be made on this blog post, on Skull-A-Day.com. You CANNOT enter this contest by commenting on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.CONTEST CLOSES: 11:59:59 PM Eastern USA Time Friday, July 18, 2014.NUMBER OF WINNERS: OnePRIZE SHIPS: This contest is open to all skull lovers around the world.

IF YOU DON'T WIN: Don't fret, Paul Johns is offering at 20% off your entire order for Skull-A-Day fans. Enter coupon code SKULLADAY at checkout in Paul John's store.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Don't forget you have until 11:59pm Eastern USA Time, TODAY, Friday, July 11, 2014, to enter the the current giveaway. Tinysaur is giving away a Tiny Mermaid Skeleton Deluxe Kit to one lucky Skull-A-Day fan. You can find the original contest post by clicking the side bar ad, or this link.

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

He explains, "The trike was built 5 years ago and then I decided to put skulls all over it and this is the first skull I put on my custum built V8 trike. I found this skull in a flea market for $10.00... I wasn't sure where to put it but a friend told me to place it where everyone could see it so I placed it in the front on the forks... I added the ruby colored glass eyes later....

I went to a Liquar store and bought a bottle of Crystal Vodka... I walked outside and poured the vodka on the round... the store keeper asked me what I was doing and I told him I needed an overflow for my raditor... He did not understand what I was talking about so when I was finished I went back and showed him what I had done... When the motor gets to warm it fills the skull and the head turns green and as the motor cools down it pulls the coolent back into the raditor leaving some in the bottle... I am going to put an LED light at the base underneith the bottle so it will glow green at night...

I made some coffin shaped wind deflectors for my trike and added a Punisher skull to the coffin along with smaller skulls at the six points of the coffin... The smaller skulls are tag fasteners but they look cool on the coffin so I used them instead of spikes... The bottom coffin wind deflector I used a smaller skull... I did this for the right and left side which turned out pretty cool... The back side of the wind deflector has a skull on it as well..

This skull is from walking cane my dad give me that I cut the head off and placed it on my front fender... I added the red marble later because a friend said it would look cool...

Here you can see I updated the tag frame to one with skulls... I also used mini lanterns as tag lights by painting three sides black leaving the tag side open so the light would shine on the tag... I placed skulls on the mini lanterns on both sides... You can see the rear bumper also has skulls as well as coffins I made and placed skull on them as well... I also used fence post finals to give that grave yard effect...

Here is a picture of some skulls on the rear bumper... mud flaps... and rear fender... I have over 500 individual skulls on my trike and over 1000 skulls on the rear fenders if you count each skull...

This is some skulls I placed on the dash and console... The one on the console is a large punisher skull and the skull on the dash was a tag with a skull on it that I cut down to fit the dash... You can see the skull key ring as well... I also cut coffins for foot rest that I am going to ad skull to later... The shifter has a skull as well... Some of these skulls are the first ones I used before the changes of the trike where I added more skulls... I placed an emblem that had seven skulls on the battery box... I placed two winged skulls on the right and left of my trike just between the coffin windows... I still have to finished the inside of the trike before I trim out the windows which will be held on with skulls...

These are shifter boots I used on the fire wall where the steering tubes come through to the handle bars... I placed skulls on the boot trim to hold them to the firewall... I cut out eight coffins out of old aluminum I had in the yard for years and then polished the coffins to look like chrome and placed skull on them... I placed 64 skull tag fasteners on four coffins and 4 skulls 3" tall on each coffin... That's 136 skulls total of 8 coffins... I then made a frame to put them on and fastened them to the motor compartment of my trike...

This is the side of my trike to show how I mounted all the skulls...

I have just built me a trailer to pull behind my trike and it is still a work in progress... I am going to have the trailer fenders skulled like the trike fenders in the near future... I also used the mini lanterns which I am going to add skulls to in the future... I will be adding skulls to the front of the trailer very soon but these pictures show the cooler I placed a skull on that I bought in an auction... It also shows the skull I used on the tongue of the trailer...

This picture shows the way I have skulls on the trailer right now but my plans are to put at least 500 individual skulls on the trailer not counting the skulls on the fenders.... I have more large Punisher skulls and smaller Punisher skulls still in the shop waiting their time to be add to my Skull Trike...

This is the rear of the trailer where I cut down a skull grill insert for a ford 150 pickup truck... I have other skull ideas for the rear of the trailer just as soon as I get all the lights wired up... I will be putting coffins in the bumper with skulls on them like the trike and larger skulls above the large skulls...

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Masayoshi Yoshino collaborated with leather artist Robert Warner, to create this jacket. Masayoshi made all the studs and buttons, totaling about 700 skulls. Robert is known for making custom leather jackets for rock stars. I love the texture all the skull studs and buttons great. Each one is finely detailed. It does remind me of the stacks of skulls in catacombs. You can see more photos of the jacket, here. I spied some other skull adornments on Masayoshi's Pinterest.

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